Exhibition 'Painter. Mentor. Magician. Otto Mueller and his artistic network in Wroclaw'
We will see works by Otto Mueller – a painter from the Die Brücke Group and a teacher of the pre-war State Academy of Art and Artistic Crafts in Breslau.
Works by the famous Expressionist Otto Mueller – a painter from the Die Brücke Group and a teacher of the pre-war State Academy of Art and Artistic Crafts in Breslau, together with works by other artists representing the Wroclaw [Breslau] artistic community of that time are showcased in an exhibition jointly prepared by the National Museum in Wroclaw, Nationalgalerie in Berlin (Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) and the Alexander and Renata Camaro Foundation (Alexander und Renata Camaro Stiftung).
The idea of the exhibition is to present the triple role of Otto Mueller as a painter, mentor and magician from various perspectives. Mueller’s figure was legendary already in his lifetime. Due to his charismatic personality and unconventional lifestyle, the artist became the icon of the artistic Bohemia of that time. The exhibition highlights the examples of Mueller’s early work as a member of Die Brücke group, as well as paintings and graphics illustrating two main motifs in his art: nudes with landscape backgrounds and “Gypsy paintings”.
Mueller’s works at the exhibition are also accompanied by works created by professors of the State Academy of Art and Artistic Crafts in Breslau, such as Oskar Moll, Alexander Kanoldt, Oskar Schlemmer, Georg Muche or Johannes Molzahn, as well as Mueller’s students, including Alexander Camaro, Johnny Friedlaender, Heinrich Tischler, Willy Schmidt, Isidor Aschheim, Greta Jahr-Queißer, Margareta Schultz-Dreier, and a Polish student Jan Cybis. The collection of exhibited works is complemented by the canvases of the contemporary Wroclaw painter Zdzisław Nitka, Mueller’s “late student”, for whom the art of the German Expressionist has been a permanent source of inspiration since the 1980s.
source: National Museum in Wroclaw
